Dough dividing and working machine



Aug. 4, wzs. 1,548,127

H. FILBRY DOUGH DIVIDING AND WORKING MACHINE Filed May 5, 1924 by crank pins 23 secured to the latter, the.

Patented Aug. 4, 1925. x

STATES 1,548,127 PATENT OFFICE.

HUBER!!! FILIBRY, or AMMENIJORF, NEAR nALLE-on-rHE-sAALE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR 'ro EABAMFA HALLESCHE BACKEBEI-MASCHINENFABRIK RAUSCH & FILBRY, or AMMENDORF, NEAR HALLE-0N-THE-'SAALE, GERMANY.

DOUGH DIVIDING AND WORKING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern Be it'known that I, HUBERT FILBRY, a citizen of the German Republic, residin at Ammendorf, near Halle-on the-sa ale, ermany, have invented. certain Improvements in Dough Dividing and Working Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to la dough-dividingand working. machine, and consists in the construction and combination of parts as hereinafter .set forth and claimed, its object being to provide a simple and inexnsive machine which is compact and reable in its operation;

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents. a side view of the machine, partly in section,.

Fig. 2, an axial section of a cam shaft employed in the machine,

; Fig. 3, an inverted Ian and a cross-section of the dough-working table, and

' Fi 4, a diagrammatic plan of the dough divi ers.

The machine has av dough-working table which is shown in detail in Fig. 3 and which is composed of a supporting and operating frame 24 and a plate 25, thelatter being rovided with a dovetailed fillet 25' wherey it is slidably guided in a corresponding recess in the frame 24. The frame 24 rests on two rotatable discs 23 and is controlled frame being provided with apertures 24' for engagement with the pins. Another plate 30, supported on the plate 25, receives the dough which is placed within a frame 32. The latter is guided' vertically within the machine frame and suspended on s rin s 32" which tend to pull it away from e p ate 30. A plurality of working pins 26 are connected to. the plate 25 and brought up through apertures 1n the plate 30 for the purpose .of workin' the dough. A presser head 14 is guide machine frame by means of a tubular shank -13 above the frame 32, and another shank 15',- guided within the shank 13, holds the dough knives comb fashion and which work in correspoding slots made in the resser head14. The knives are normally ush with the presser face and are projected through the latter for cutting the dough. When thus provertically in the divider 15. The latter is fitted with 39 which are connected in honey-' to the cells.

Application filed May 5, 1924. Serial No. 711,162.

jected, they form hexagonal cells 38 (Fig. 4) which determine the division ofthe dough.

Double-armed levers 11 and 12 which rock about pivot, pins 10, are engaged respectively, one to the shank 13 and the other to the'shank 15 so as to control the position of the divider relative to the presser head and both relative to the working table.

Springs 40 engage the opposite arms of the levers and hold them in engagement with cams 6 and 7 respectively, these cams being mounted on a shaft 41; The levers bear against thefcams by means of rollers connected to spindles 42.- The latter can be adjusted by means of milled wheels 16 for ad usting the position of the dough divider and presser relative to the working table and' thus regulating the thickness of the dough sections. Y

Theshaft 41 carries a worm wheel 5 through the medium of which it receives rotation, from a worm 4 mounted on a shaft 1. The latter is the only operating shaft of the machine, and it receives motion from a pulley .3 when coupled to the same by means of a clutch 43. A pivoted arm 2 controls the clutch 43 and is itself controlled by a slide 2. A disc 9 on the. shaft 41 carries a tappet 37 which disengages the clutch 43 by engagement with the slide 2. A. sleeve 18 on the shaft 1 is fitted with bevel gears- 19 and 20 which mesh withsimilar wheels21 and 2 2-m0unted on the shafts of the discs 23 for driving the cranks pin 26 for-each of the cells 38, and the spr ng 27 tends to hold theplate 25 so that the pins are in an eccentric position relative to the cells and will-bemoved by the cranks 23 in circles-withinthe cells as indicated by the broken circular line in Fig. 4. Normally the plate 25 is supported and locked by a latch 31 so that thepins occupy a central position relative The latch 31 cooperates with a cam segment 33 which is connected to the connected to the latter as well as to the plate. 1 There is a cam 7 and which controls the locking andeffected by means of a lever 35 which 00- operates with a tappet 36 .on thedisc 8.

The modusioperandi is as follows:

When the machine is started from the position shown in Fig. 1, the cams 6 and 7 act on the levers 11 and 12 so as to lower the dough divider and the presser head into the frame 32 on the plate 30. The dividing knives are first flush with the presser face, but are projected through the same so as to divide the dough layer as soon as the latter has been compressed and flattened to the predetermined thickness. When the dough layer'has been divided by the knives, the plate 25 isreleased from the cam 33, and the sudden displacement of the plate and the pins 26, causes ;the dough sections to be loosened from the cell walls. time the clutch 17 is operated so as to couple the cranks 23 to the operating shaft 1, and the dough sections will then be worked by the pins26 against the angular side walls of the cells 38. When the lever 28 is released from the cam 29, the movement of the cranks 23 is interrupted and at the same time the actuated by the tappet 36 so as to release the frame 32 which is then lifted by its springs, leaving the dough sections behind 'on the table. At the same time the slide 2 is operated by the tappet 37 so as to arrest the movement of the shafts.

are controlled by a single operating shaft in cooperation with a cam shaft and a single transmission gear. This renders the machine very simple and compact and ensures a reliable functioning of the same.

Iclaunz. 1; A dough-dlvidin'g andworking ma r chine comprising an operating shaft, a driving pulley arranged loosely onsaid shaft, a cam shaftya worm gear; for transmitting motion between the two shafts, a) working table, a presser head arranged over said table, douglrdividing knives arranged-adjustably in said head, a frame arranged between the pressei head and the 'tableto/receive the dough, springs tending to lift" the frame from the table, means for holding the frame against the table-{cranks for im-' At the same parting circular motion to the table in its own plane, and means operated by said cam shaft for coupling the operating shaft to the driving pulley, for applying the presser head and the knives to the table, for coupling the cranks to the operating shaft while the head is applied to the table, for disconnecting the Y couplings, and for releasing the frame from the working table, all during one revolution of the cam shaft;

2. A dough-dividing and working machine comp-rising an operating shaft, a driving pulleyarranged loosely on said shaft, a cam shaft, a worm gear for transmitting motion between the two shafts, a working table having projecting dough-working pins,

cranks for imparting circular motion to the tablein its own plane, a presserhead arranged over' "said "ta ble, dough-dividing knives arranged adjust'ably said head, and means operated by said cam shaft for coupling the operatingshaft to the driving pulley, for applying the presse'r head and. the knives to the table,'for coupling. the cranks to the operating shaft while the head is applied to the table and for disconnecting the couplings during one revolution of the cam shaft.

3. A dough dividing and working'machine comprising an operating shaft. a driying pulley arranged loosely on said shaft, a cam shaft, a worm gear for transmitting motion between the two shafts, cranks for imparting circular motion to the table in its own plane, a presser head arranged over said table, a honeycomb-shaped dough divider guided in said head, nins connected to the" shaft for coupling the operating shaft to Itwill be observed that all the operations the driving pulley, for applying the presser head and the divider to the'table, for coupling the cranks to the operating shaft while thehe'ad is applied to the table so as to circulate the pinswithin the divider cells, and for disconnecting the couplings. during one revplution of the cam shaft.

4. In a dough-dividing. and working ma-- chine a working table, a presser head, doughdlvldlng knives guided in sald head, a cam shaft, levers controlled by saidcam shaft I for adjusting the. divider relative to the head and both relative to the working table,

rollers connected to said levers so as to take the thrust of the cams, means for adjusting the position. of the rollers relative to the levers so as to regulate the distance of the head from the working table. a HUBERT FILBRY. 

